The news from the three battles.

CHINA: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MAN CONVICTED OF TRAFFICKING CHILDREN

A higher court on January 21, 2025 upheld the death sentence for Wang Haowen, who was convicted of trafficking children.

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOG 10 PEOPLE IN KHOST AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS PERSIST

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 10 individuals, including one woman, were publicly whipped in Khost province on January 22, 2025, charged with “adultery,” “sodomy,” “illicit relations,” and “running away from home.”

IRAN - EU Parliament adopts resolution condemning Iran's use of death penalty

USA - Alabama. De facto death penalty

277 died within prison walls in 2024

USA - Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?

"Highly unlikely", legal experts say

BANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR 2013 MURDER IN SAVAR

A court in Dhaka sentenced three people to death on January 16, 2025 for the murder of a man in Savar about 12 years ago over previous enmity.

INDIA: 5 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE-MURDER OF CHHATTISGARH GIRL

A fast-track court in Korba district of Chhattisgarh has sentenced five men to death for gang-raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and murdering her two family members in 2021.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Saveh on January 22

IRAN - Lawyer of Pakhshan Azizi: Execution Temporarily Halted

IRAN - Ahmad Sasouli executed in Yazd on January 22

IRAN - Omid Besharatlou and Javad Jaberi executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on January 22

IRAN - Four prisoners executed in Yazd on January 22

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